Energy options set aside for now

There have been countless articles about chances for an economically devastating shortage of energy in the future, usually with suggestions for some technological solution.
But before settling on a solution, we must first confirm there is a problem — and that is problematic.
Many analysts say we will never run out of oil, and others say we will. This means that one bunch of analysts doesn’t know what it is talking about.

As long as foreign oil is cheap enough, we will burn it instead of moving to more expensive but more secure sources of energy. If that oil were suddenly shut off, it would be all-out war or all-out disaster. Can this happen? It isn’t obvious that it can’t.

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